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from the director of the critically acclaimed Salt of this Sea
a new film by Annemarie Jacir
WHEN I SAW YOU (Lamma Shoftak)
Winner NETPAC award BEST ASIAN FILM - BERLIN INT. FILM FESTIVAL
Winner BEST ARAB FILM - ABU DHABI FILM FESTIVAL
Winner AUDIENCE AWARD (Prix du Public) - AMIENS INT. FILM FESTIVAL
Winner SIGNIS Award Best Film - AMIENS INT. FILM FESTIVAL
Nomination Best Children's Film - ASIAN PACIFIC SCREEN AWARDS
Winner World Cinema BEST PICTURE - PHOENIX INT. FILM FESTIVAL
Mahmoud Asfa nominated for YOUNG ARTIST AWARD for Leading Performance in Foreign Film
Winner BEST ACTOR (Mahmoud Asfa) - Olympia International Film Festival
Winner UNICEF Award - Olympia International Film Festival
Winner SPECIAL JURY PRIZE - ORAN FESTIVAL OF ARAB CINEMA
Winner JURY PRIZE - CAIRO INT. FILM FESTIVAL
Winner - Tunisian Film Critics Don Quixote Award - CARTHAGE INT. FILM FESTIVAL
PALESTINE's 2013 OSCAR ENTRY for Foreign Language Film
Jordan, 1967. Tarek, 11, eccentric and unbound, runs away from home in a search for freedom.
Some people follow the masses, others the sun. A journey of the human spirit that knows no borders.
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"When I Saw You is cinematic poetry. Beautiful, groundbreaking and deeply, deeply moving." -The Huffington Post
"One of the best works to come out of the current explosion in filmmaking in the Middle East!" -Indiewire
